This novel from Manjul Publishing House is a Hindi medium (हिन्दी माध्यम) book written by Kailash Manju Bishnoi, meant for civil services aspirants (सिविल सेवा अभ्यर्थी) and for readers of contemporary Hindi fiction (समकालीन हिंदी उपन्यास). It is the second part of the bestselling कलेक्टर साहिबा series. < cite index="57-1">Where the first part showed the love between Angel and Girish at its height, this one takes up what happens once Angel becomes an IAS officer: she finds herself pulled between her career and her love, while Girish, who loves her completely, is caught between his self-respect and his feelings — and the question the book keeps returning to is whether Angel will give up Girish for the sake of her dreams, or whether what they have will hold. Told through the eyes of both Angel and Girish, it sets out the tangles of a relationship and the collision of two ambitions, weaving love, career and self-respect together and pressing the reader to consider whether both can be carried at once or whether one always has to be surrendered. < cite index="48-1">The novel also turns toward the political, asking whether politics can defeat love, and it stays alert to the world its characters live in — Girish's worry about young people being destroyed by drugs runs through the book as one of its more unsettling threads. < cite index="41-1">Readers coming to the series for the first time should know that the first part follows Angel's struggle and her will to keep going, her selection into the IAS and the training atmosphere at LBSNAA in Mussoorie, the friendship of four civil services aspirants in its early chapters, the difficulties competitive-exam students faced during the Corona period, and a hard look at administrative corruption and red tape. < cite index="52-1">The author's strength here is that he was himself a civil services aspirant and folds episodes from his own preparation days into the story, which is why a fictional plot carries the smell of the real thing. The whole book is written in Hindi in the Devanagari script (देवनागरी लिपि).
Key Features:
Hindi medium book — complete content written in Hindi (Devanagari script)
Written by Kailash Manju Bishnoi, published by Manjul Publishing House
Part 2 of the bestselling कलेक्टर साहिबा : UPSC वाला लव series
Picks up after Angel's selection as an IAS officer
Central conflict — प्रेम, करियर और आत्म-सम्मान: can love and career both survive?
Narrated from both Angel's and Girish's points of view
Explores the pressure politics and power place on a personal relationship
Touches on drug addiction among young people and the concern it raises
Written by an author who was himself a UPSC aspirant — preparation-day detail rings true
Useful and motivating reading for UPSC and state PCS aspirants
Simple, energetic Hindi that carries the reader quickly through the story
First part covers Angel's struggle, LBSNAA Mussoorie training, the Corona-era aspirant life and administrative red tape
The series has been an Amazon bestseller and has been translated into Marathi
Suitable for young readers, students and general Hindi readers
Reads on its own, but best enjoyed after Part 1
मंजुल पब्लिशिंग हाउस द्वारा प्रकाशित 'कलेक्टर साहिबा-2 : UPSC वाला लव' कैलाश मांजू बिश्नोई का उपन्यास है और बेस्टसेलर 'कलेक्टर साहिबा' शृंखला का दूसरा भाग है। पहले भाग में जहाँ एंजल और गिरीश का प्रेम अपने चरम पर दिखाया गया था, वहीं यह भाग उन चुनौतियों को सामने लाता है जो एंजल के आईएएस अधिकारी बन जाने के बाद उनके रिश्ते में आती हैं। एंजल अपने करियर और अपने प्रेम के बीच उलझ जाती है, जबकि गिरीश आत्म-सम्मान और भावनाओं के द्वंद्व में फँसा रहता है। एंजल और गिरीश — दोनों के दृष्टिकोण से यह उपन्यास रिश्तों की पेचीदगियों और महत्त्वाकांक्षाओं के टकराव को दिखाता है, और पाठक को यह सोचने पर विवश करता है कि क्या प्रेम और करियर साथ-साथ निभाए जा सकते हैं या किसी एक की बलि चढ़ानी ही पड़ती है। लेखक स्वयं सिविल सेवा अभ्यर्थी रह चुके हैं, इसलिए तैयारी के दिनों के किस्से इस काल्पनिक कथा में वास्तविकता की ख़ुशबू भर देते हैं। यह उपन्यास हर उस नवयुवक के लिए है जो बड़े सपने देखता है। सम्पूर्ण पुस्तक हिन्दी भाषा एवं देवनागरी लिपि में है।